A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This pub built its reputation pouring post-shift pints for employees of the cemetery with which it shares a wall.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The oldest public library in Ireland.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Catacombs turned marketplace.